Collection and Compilation of Industrial Statistics in Sri Lanka Presented by: U. Maheshwaran Deputy Director Industry, Construction, Trade and Services Division Department of Census

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Collection and Compilation of Industrial
Statistics in Sri LankaPresented by U.
Maheshwaran Deputy DirectorIndustry,
Construction, Trade and Services
DivisionDepartment of Census Statistics
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Outline

• Major programmes for collecting industrial
  statistics
• Decennial Census of Industries
• Annual survey of industries
• Survey of construction industries
• Quarterly survey of Industrial production

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Census of Industry

• Started in 1946 covered the sectors Agriculture
  and Industry
• Census of Industry 2003/2004 is the last in the
  series of censuses
• Covered the Establishments
• having production facilities
• Keep separate accounts
• with proper management and location

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Census of Industry (Cont)

• Scope
• Establishments engaged in
• Mining and Quarrying
• Manufacturing
• Generation, Distribution of Water, Gas,
  Electricity
• Field Operation
• Two stages
• Listing Operation
• Data collection

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Census of Industry (Cont.)

• Listing Operation
• Using listing form of census of population and
  housing industries were extracted to separate
  forms for smaller geographical areas
• Updated list was prepared by sending it to the
  field (Districts)

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Census of Industry (Cont.)

• Data Collection
• Data collection was done by dividing these
  industries in to two parts
• Industries with persons engaged 25 or more were
  fully enumerated
• Industries with persons engaged 5-24 were
  covered by a sample survey

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Economic Census 2013/2014

• The decennial Census of industries has been
  replaced by the Economic Census 2013/14 this
  time
• Coverage
• All the units which engaged in any economic
  activity are covered

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Annual Survey of Industries

• DCS Started to conduct the Annual Survey of
  Manufacturing Industries (ASMI) in 1979
• After the Census of Industry in 1983 ASMI was
  replaced by Annual Survey of Industries (ASI)
• From 1984 ASI is conducted by DCS Annually
• The 27th ASI series was conducted in 2012.

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Annual Survey of Industries (Cont.)

• Coverage ( ISIC Rev. 3.1 )
• Mining and Quarrying
• Manufacturing
• Generation, Distribution of Electricity, Gas and
  Water
• Complete enumeration Persons engaged 25 and more
• Sample enumeration Persons engaged below 25
• Sample Design is a three stage stratified
  sampling
• According to geographical location
  (Administrative districts) and Industries (ISIC 2
  digit level) and size of persons engaged

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Survey method

• The survey part was further Stratified according
  to Geographical location, Industrial activity and
  Size classes to persons engaged .
• Geographical strata 24 Administrative
  Districts
• Industrial Activity - 2 digit Industry
  Divisions
• Size classes - Persons engaged size classes
  as 5-9, 10-24

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Type of industry

• The ASI is mainly categorized under three
  Industry Types according to no of persons
  engaged.
• Large, Medium Small and Micro
• Large 25 or more persons
  engaged
• Medium Small - 5 to 24 persons
  engaged
• micro- Less than 5 persons engaged

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Method of data collection

• For the ASI 2012 a total no. of 6326
  establishments had been selected.
• ASI is a postal Survey
• But the Field officers of the DCS are sent to the
  non responding establishments to get higher
  percentage of response

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Main variables collected

• Main variables collected through ASI
  Questionnaire
• Input
• Output
• Fixed Assets
• Employment Earnings

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Response Rate of the ASI
Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Response Rate () 72 68 65 54 53
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Quarterly survey of Industrial Production

• Conducted Quarterly with the Objective of
  collecting data for compiling economic indicators
  quarterly for estimating the GDP
• Economic Indicators compiled
• Short term trends of Industrial sector
• Industrial performance
• Growth rates of Industries (ISIC 2 Digit Level)

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